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"As Seen on TV" Up Selling & More Fake Checks
Remember the last time you saw an As Seen on TV ad? In the beginning it looks like a good offer at a reasonable price… then they start throwing more bonuses at you, and sometime even double the offer and then cut the price in half again! How in the world do these As Seen on TV offers make any money? Besides the mass amount and cheap production, most infomercials are making money on their customers through data collection, extra s&h costs, up selling and third party advertisements sent out with products.
I recently ordered a new product from the As Seen on TV line, Crazy Critters. My dog loves to rip apart her stuffed animal toys, so Crazy Critters is supposed to be somewhat indestructible. Our dog Foxy managed to break one of the squeakers in the first day, but the animal is still in tact and she loves it.
You can see the Crazy Critters landing page below. It states that you get one Crazy Critter Fox for $10, then the Raccoon is free (plus S&H). The shipping and handling is where they get you and make some extra money. It's $6.99 for the first Crazy Critter, and $6.99 for the additional free plush ordered. I ended up ordering the Fox and Raccoon and the total came to $25.66, still a good deal in my book.
Next is all of the fun promotional spam they send along with your shipment. It really wasn't much, but it's good to know what's being sent out and how companies market their products. You can see the assortment of goodies below.
Most of the collection is pretty harmless. Another up sell for Crazy Critters, another for a cheap diamond ring, but the killer is another one of those fake checks (like we saw with Snuggie) that gets you stuck on a rebill offer. What looks like a $10.00 rebate check, actually gets you a paid membership to American Leisure for $98.95 a year… automatically hitting the credit card you used to buy your original product (Crazy Critters in this case). On the back of the check you will notice how they spell out "eighty-nine dollars and ninety-five cents" so it is less obvious.
Granted it comes down to the consumer to read everything they receive and sign, but how many seniors ordering this stuff for their kids could easily fall for this. It's a bit shady, but it might be performing well enough for As Seen on TV and other distributors to continue offering very low priced products, then making money off these promotional mailings. If only 10% (which is very high) of the people receiving these fake checks actually sent them in, that would bring in more business than the actual products they are shipping out. If the FTC and industry is going to come down hard on rebill offers, shouldn't these fake checks fall under the same category?
Meet the Entrepreneurs and Experts of Affiliate Summit West 17
Thousands of internet marketers, entrepreneurs, content creators and brands will ascend upon Las Vegas this weekend for Affiliate Summit West 2017. Not only has Affiliate Summit become one of the largest affiliate and internet marketing conferences in the world today, it's also one I've been closely associated with ever since the beginning. From it's first conference in a small room in New York City with just a couple hundred people to now having more than 5,000+ attendees and conferences twice per year, it's always been great to attend as both an attendee and speaker.
At the same time, it would be a huge mistake to discount Affiliate Summit as just another networking of marketing conference. The relationships, businesses and life experiences that are a result of the event is second to none — which I why I always recommend everyone to attend, no matter their current level of expertise.
By the way… if you are attending, don't miss the awesome "How to Become a Millionaire Blogger" panel with myself, John Chow, John Rampton, and Syed Balkhi. It's almost always standing room only, and rated as one of the highest attended and most valued sessions of Affiliate Summit.
Over the years I've literally met thousands of people through the conference and built many powerful relationships and business opportunities as well. With each new year, new speakers, entrepreneurs, and bloggers will take the next step in becoming financially independent, starting a side business or simply changing the world in some way or another.
To help you not only get inspired for this year's Affiliate Summit West conference but also get inspired with just a glimpse of the talent at this event, I wanted to highlight some of my previous podcast guests, who will also be speaking at #ASW17. Enjoy, and I hope to see you there!
Inspiring Stories and Marketing Tips from Affiliate Summit Speakers
Below you will find a list of speakers currently on the agenda for ASW 17. However, through my podcast I've interviewed more than 80 different industry experts… many of which who will be also attending the event in one way or another. Be sure to check out the full list of interviews here.
Shawn Collins and the Affiliate Summit Empire
Shawn Collins the co-founder of Affiliate Summit, which has become the largest affiliate marketing conference in the world today.
I've been good friends with Shawn for a while now and we've both been able to experience the affiliate marketing industry completely transition and develop over the past 15+ years. We were both in attendance at the Affiliate Force cruise, which was one of the first attempts at an affiliate marketing conference, but knew it could be done better. At that point Shawn and Missy decided they could do it better and the rest is history!
John Chow, the Master of Blog Monetization
John Chow is one of the most well-known and successful bloggers in the world. If you've ever Google'd "how to make money online" or "how to make money blogging", you've probably come across his name and site several times.
The amazing thing about John Chow was that he was never supposed to make money with his blog in the first place. What was originally just going to be a blog on his personal life and what he ate for lunch, soon became a "money making case study". As John learned new and exciting ways to monetize his blog content and audience, the money just kept rolling in.
Jump forward several years later and his blog is now generating over six-figures per month, and most of it recurring and automated through his amazing sales funnel system — all of which John talks about in this episode.
Rachel Honoway, From Intern to CEO
Rachel Honoway is the CEO of For Me To Coupon. However it's not her current position that we are focusing on, instead it's the great journey that's led her to where she is today.
The start of Rachel's journey in the world of online marketing is nearly 20 years in the making. Rachel's first job was at an internet marketing company called Kowabunga, where she first came in as an intern. As the company continued to grow in size, so did Rachel's daily tasks and her job title. The company was soon acquired and Rachel was then managing more of the company than ever before. Once leaving Kowabunga, Rachel had a wide range of opportunities over the years before ending up at For Me To Coupon, where she is the CEO today — which is all discussed in this latest episode.
Syed Balkhi, the Wizard of WordPress
Syed Balkhi is not only a master at WordPress, but he is also an awesome entrepreneur.
Since an early age Syed has always had a passion for business and building success. This could be seen from the early years of his life when he was just a kid in Pakistan and selling greeting cards. Then later in life while in high school, Syed started developing sites of his own while quickly discovering what the internet had to offer.
Today Syed runs some of the most powerful and heavily trafficked sites in the world… and yes, they are all powered with WordPress!
Stephan Spencer and the Science of SEO
Stephan Spencer is an SEO expert. He's also the author of Google Power Search and co-author of The Art of SEO… so it's safe to say he knows his stuff when it comes to SEO and ranking sites in the search results.
How sites rank in the search results can go all the way back to before 2000, which is when Stephan and his NetConcepts company started getting heavy into SEO services. The thing about SEO is that it's always changing, so to be one of the best SEO experts in the industry, Stephan is continually at the forefront of the industry and connecting with some of the most successful experts, businesses, and brands in the world.
Geno Prussakov Shares his Affiliate Management Tips
Geno Prussakov is an affiliate marketing expert, author, and international speaker.
In the world of the internet, being an expert is key. Geno has mastered the art of affiliate marketing and affiliate program management and through this expertise has been able to grow his personal brand and business at the same time. As the author of many best-selling books on affiliate marketing, and also haven spoke at 50+ different conferences on such topics, Geno is the voice many people turn to when looking for answers to their affiliate marketing questions.
Having trained thousands of marketing professionals through his various books and online blog, Geno also went on to create Affiliate Management Days, which is a conference solely focused on the art of successful affiliate program management.
Oliver Roup Wants to Make Every Link Intelligent and Valuable
Oliver Roup is the founder and CEO of VigLink, a company that helps content creators make money through the use of affiliate marketing, while not having to deal with all the complexities of individual tracking, manually creating links and joining multiple programs.
Before getting active in the online marketing space, Oliver had accumulated quite an exciting resume of previous work with Space X, Microsoft, Paul Allen and many others. However, what might be Oliver's most exciting experience to date was taking his business at Viglink from an idea to the flourishing business it is today.
For Oliver, this isn't something that would happen overnight. Instead, it was a long journey of meeting with investors and VCs, trying to convince them that his idea was worth their time and investment. After many failed attempts, Oliver finally found an investor that was interested and things started to move fast!
Years later and over $20 million dollars in funding to date, the company continues to grow and scale in size while also helping sites of all sizes make money with their content while also connecting them with some of the largest brands and advertisers in the world.
Russell Brunson and How to Create Killer Sales Funnels
Russell Brunson is an entrepreneur and the founder of DotComSecrets and ClickFunnels.
While finishing up his last year in College, Russell wanted to figure out a way to make enough money so he could continue with his passion for wrestling and to take care of himself and his girlfriend. After dabbling in the online marketing space and going through various failed projects, Russell discovered that one of the most successful ways to make money online was through the use of ebooks, guides and selling information. While messing around with some friends, Russell wanted to create a potato gun and went to the internet to find out how to create one. Once he found that there was nothing out there, he quickly threw one together and made a little course of his own on how to do the same.
Jump forward several years and today you will find Russell Brunson with all of his attention focused on ClickFunnels, a WYSIWYG editor and seamless way to create high converting landing pages and sales funnels. Not only has ClickFunnels become a huge success, it's also taught Russell how to grow and scale a company, while also learning how to remove distractions and only focusing on what matters most.
John Rampton and Living the Dream in Silicon Valley
John Rampton is an online entrepreneur who has become a master at pay per click marketing, but even more importantly — making connections and networking with the right people.
I first met John Rampton several years back when he came up to me and asked for an interview while at Affiliate Summit. Since then we just seemed to click and started working on various projects together. In addition to being the Managing Editor of Search Engine Journal, John's writing can also be found on Forbes, HuffingtonPost, Entrepreneur and many other top media outlets and news sources.
One of the major reasons for John's success in the world of online marketing can be attributed to his outgoing attitude, willingness to help others and talking with just about everyone he meets. Each of these are all required skills for making it in the world of business and forming new partnerships. With all of this in mind, it only made sense for him to leave his home state of Utah and make the big move to Silicon Valley, CA — the central economic focal point for everything internet!
Thomas Smale and How to Buy and Sell Websites
Thomas Smale is the co-founder of FE International, a company that was founded in 2010 that focuses on website brokering for mid-market online businesses.
Back in 2009-2010 Thomas wanted to get involved in the world of online marketing, but with little technical experience, his options were limited. It was then that he fell upon the concept of buying and selling websites for himself. With only a few hundred dollars at a time, Thomas began buying and flipping websites and getting quite good at it in the process. As his reputation and experience in this space started to grow, so did requests from other individuals asking for his support in selling their own websites — thus, a new business venture begins!
Today Thomas is the co-founder of FE International, which has offices in two different countries and 11 team members — all with the focus on website brokering and mastering the art of buying and selling websites.
See you at Affiliate Summit West!
10 Strategies to Take Your Facebook Marketing to the Next Level
How should brands that rely on Facebook marketing shift strategy in light of Facebook's latest newsfeed update (which makes brand pages more dependent on users sharing posts with friends)?
Facebook, with over 1.7 billion users, is a powerful marketing platform for any business. It allows you to reach consumers on a platform that they are already using every day.
But when users told Facebook that they wanted to see more stories from friends and less promotional content, Facebook implemented a news feed update that gave them just that. So what does that mean for your marketing efforts?
Businesses now need to work harder to ensure that their content is shareable rather than promotional. We asked ten entrepreneurs from YEC to share their best tips to ensure that your content still makes it on the news feed.
1. Be the Supplier for News Breakers
Step back and think about the sharing behavior of your own friends. They always want to be the first to share content that others have not already seen. Be fast and be first to break new stories relevant to your audience. Your Facebook page fans are more likely to share exclusive and engaging content to their own personal audiences if they feel it's fresh and new.
– Anthony Saladino, Kitchen Cabinet Kings
2. Stop Selling and Start Engaging
Unless you want to pay Facebook to promote your content, you need to push more content that your audience is likely to share. The more shares and likes you drive, the more reach you get with your content. With Facebook's recent change, the key is to stop using Facebook to sell and instead use it to educate, entertain and engage your audience.
3. Pay Facebook
Facebook is a public company. Any updates to its newsfeed algorithm are meant to help the company maximize its return to shareholders. My advice? Play the game. Pay Facebook its advertising dollars to ensure your content gets discovered. The cost to create content (designers, copywriters, etc.) is usually more than advertising. Budget a little extra for Facebook ads to produce your best content ROI.
4. Embed Interactivity
Reduce the number of links that you post on your page and focus on embedding content – articles and videos – into Facebook instead. Since Facebook users prefer to stay on Facebook, giving them content without sending them away will help to guarantee they actually share your content, which will then place you in front of other audiences. Share stories that are informative, not promotional.
5. Focus on Proven Tactics That Yield More Shares
Tactics like video content and helpful advice are some of the most commonly shared type of posts, so businesses should redirect their content strategy toward these tactics if they haven't done so already.
– Peter Daisyme, Due Invoicing
6. Diversify Your Marketing Strategies
It is not a good idea to be solely dependent on just one marketing platform. In this fast-paced world, change is inevitable when it comes to marketing via various social media platforms. Diversify your marketing strategies across numerous platforms because safety comes in numbers. If changes on one platform don't suit your business, move your marketing money to another.
– Engelo Rumora, List'n Sell Realty
7. Make Ad Campaigns Pop
With social media platforms now "competing for screen time," companies need to make their advertising campaigns funny or memorable. We always remember those funny Super Bowl commercials, share them and talk about them. Making an emotional connection through storytelling will make potential customers remember your brand and create more buzz.
8. Network and Be Personal
You need to connect with friends and family on a personal level. Then you can market your services, just like you would in real life. You would not consistently blast your friends and family with announcements of your services, so don't do it on Facebook either. However, a well-placed announcement for something interesting or important can be effective.
– Peter Boyd, PaperStreet Web Design
9. Make Content Sharable, Then Pay
If you have the right approach, this shouldn't be a problem. You're already creating shareable content targeted to the right audience. But even if your content is popular, you'll have to pay to promote posts to a wider audience. Find out which posts generate the most engagement and pay to promote them. For brands, Facebook isn't the free ride to huge audiences that it used to be.
– Justin Blanchard, ServerMania Inc.
10. Provide Value
Facebook is a game changer for any business that can master it. By providing value to the users that share your posts, it will give them an incentive to do so more often. For example, if you have an e-commerce business, offer a coupon code to anyone who shares your post. If you're providing a service, give the users access to an exclusive blog post for sharing.
– Chad Keller, WUDN
The answers above are provided by members of Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world's most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, YEC recently launched BusinessCollective, a free virtual mentorship program that helps millions of entrepreneurs start and grow businesses.
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At Thanksgiving we held a turkey cooking class. Parents signed up for the class, which featured free-range, organic and vegetarian-fed turkeys. It was a one-hour class that taught everyone about organics and sustainability. We had a variety of recipes to choose from, along with all of the organic herbs. They then took home their oven-ready turkey to roast for Thanksgiving.

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I. In Focus This Week
Potential perfect storm of changes await Idaho voters next week
Election officials work to prepare voters for what's to come
Recently, an election official noted that "uncertainty is the enemy of election administration."
This year in Idaho, which holds its primary on May 15, not only has uncertainty been an enemy, but so has change.
In addition to redistricting, the state legislature made several major changes to how Idahoans vote and that has left many local election officials scrambling to implement the changes and explain them to voters.
This year will be Idaho's first-ever closed primary. Every voter will have to declare a party affiliation for the first time. About a week before the election, the secretary of state's office figured that about 85 percent of the state's voters had yet to officially declare a party.
"Redistricting and closed primaries have the potential of creating a perfect storm," said Christopher Rich, clerk for Ada County. "We have done substantial outreach with the media and they have been very helpful in explaining closed primaries and directing the public to our web site for further information."
According to Sara Staub, Bingham County clerk, her county sent out new registration cards to registered voters, precinct by precinct and asked that they fill them out and designate their party so that this could be done prior to the primary election.
"We had about 68 percent of the cards returned," Staub said. "Because of cost, we were not able to do all of the precincts but we did a good cross section. We felt this would help with the process on election day and help the lines move faster."
All of this additional work to accommodate the legislatively mandated changes has cost counties money they didn't have budgeted and required additional work from existing employees.
"It has literally 'taxed' the county's resources for personnel. The amount of additional work from training to PR has taken up a lot of time," said Staub. "We have had to bring on extra part time workers to fill in the gaps."
Patty Weeks, clerk of Nez Perce County echoed Straub's concerns about the impact these changes have had on personnel, and ultimately the public.
"The personnel costs associated with this change answering the public's questions — specifically about the caucus — were unexpected. Other parts of our operation have had to take a back seat and we have provided less service in order to accommodate the public inquiries," Weeks said. "We did use some contingency money from our budget to meet additional newspaper costs. The ballot costs were also a significant increase which we did budget."
Counties haven't been alone in their struggle to prepare for next week's election. The state legislature allocated $200,000 to the secretary of state's office for voter education efforts and to help counties make the necessary changes.
And many of the county officials sang the praises of the secretary of state's office for the help it provided throughout the process.
In some instances it was one county helping another. Canyon County faced more redistricting hurdles than others did and was left scrambling to accommodate new precincts and the equipment necessary to make it happen. According to the Idaho Statesman, Twin Falls County, which actually lost precincts in the redistricting, gave Canyon County six AutoMark accessible voting machines.
"That saves us a ton of money," Deputy Clerk Brad Jackson told the paper. "We had a quote for $4,200 apiece."
Even though Twin Falls County didn't face some of the same redistricting struggles that other counties did, that didn't mean it's been smooth sailing. Kristina Glascok, county clerk, said the changes have had a lot of impacts on her office including additional data entry, new ballot layout and design and guesstimating just how many ballots they will need.
In addition to that, training for poll workers has changed and consumed a lot of time.
"Poll worker training has been difficult explaining all of the changes," Glascok said. "It has doubled the length of our training sessions."
Clifford Hayes, clerk in Kootenai County said that early voting has helped prepare his poll workers and staff for what could happen on Tuesday. Overall, he's been pleased with the response of the voters and his staff.
"There have been some voters that have been confused," Hayes said. "But not numerous amounts so I think that people are starting to understand."
Still, no matter how well they are prepared and how much voter outreach counties do in advance of Tuesday, they ultimately don't know what to expect from voters.
"Our concern is the independent nature of Idaho voters combined with the number of voters who have registered as Unaffiliated," Rich added. "Should they — the Unaffiliated voter — choose a nonpartisan ballot expecting to see contested races they will be gravely disappointed.... and how will that play out; hence our investment in additional personnel, training, materials and voter outreach."
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Hi Darwin. My name is Rick. I was a member a couple of years back and tried to log in under "hpdrifter", but it did not show up in data base I guess.
Anyway, I have rekindled my flame for reloading some 45 apc's, 45 colt, and a few 357; mostly 45 apc and colt.
I had posted a couple of times before on a spring in place of the cartridge retainers, I couldn't figure out posting pictures so the thread.........and idea fizzled. Also, that I angle cut my slide ramp(for lack of better term) where the flipper comes out and the handle pushes it back in to advance the shellplate. I'm a little rusty on the nomenclature.
Frankly, it's been a busy day or two and I don't recall if I tried to re-register with the name of "hpdrifter'. I think I did.
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Over the four-day parley Smith participated in meetings of a number of Board committees including Small Jewish communities; Holocaust restitution; Unity of the Jewish People and a Task Force on Anti-Semitism.
The Board also approved JAFI's 2013 budget of $315m (reflecting a cut of $20 from 2012) and held a session on the Iranian threat. The Extended Zionist Executive heard in-depth reports on the organizations' expanding activities in Israel and the Diaspora.
B'nai B'rith World Center director Alan Schneider, coordinator of the B'nai B'rith International WZO/JAFI Committee, also participated in the meetings, attending the launch of a new JAFI Task Force on outreach efforts to Israelis living abroad.


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Berroco's "Modern Cotton" is a cotton and rayon blend yarn that is as soft as your favorite tee shirt! This machine washable medium weight yarn comes in a great palette of spring colors, and has great stitch definition. Modern Cotton is perfect for any project, from baby and children's clothes to fun summer accessories!
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Muang Boran or the Ancient City is the world's biggest open-air museum. It occupies an area of 500 rais (200 acres). Construction began in the latter part of 1963. It is located at Tambon Bang Pu Mai, at Km. 33.5 of the old Sukhumvit Road, 8 kilometres from Samut Prakan town. This unique attraction is the center of scaled-down and actual-size replicas of important historical sites of various provinces such as Prasat Hin Phanom Rung, Wat Mahathat Sukhothai, Phraphuttabat Saraburi, Phrathat Mueang Nakhon, Phrathat Chaiya, etc.


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I will never make it through the underwriting process. I called the mortgage broker this morning to get the app started. He said he would get it ready and call me to come sign it. That was at 8:00 this morning. It's 3:00 here and I still haven't heard from him. No way my patience will hold out for a month if I can barely even make it through today.
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We had the home inpsection this morning. Everything looks good. There are of course a few minor things but nothing major. Now we have to wait on the appraisal. Mortgage broker said it would be about two weeks.
A little glitch with the mortgage paperwork. Turns out the address was incomplete on most of the forms so I have to go back and sign everything again. No big deal there though.
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Looks like underwriting won't be so easy for us after all. Got a call from the mortgage broker yesterday. Apparently my student loans, which are on forbearance, are showing as deferred on my credit report. Why this is my fault, I have no idea. Anyway, I guess that makes a difference to an underwriter because loans are only on forbearance when you have a financial hardship and can't pay them. That is not true in my case. I put them on forbearance to pay other things off and when I started repaying them, my score tanked 50 points. I panicked and put them back on forbearance until we could purchase a house. The mortgage broker asked me to print him my statements from experian showing the score drop and increase to support my story. He said it should be enough but now I'm nervous. He thinks they will make me take them out of forbearance as a condition of the loan, which is totally fine. Also, if you read the original post, you know that we had a lot of trouble with my husband's previous job. Well, they had two credit cards that he was the primary on, so they are under his social security number. The previous employer has not paid them in almost three years, so of course they are killing his credit. Even though he isn't on the mortgage, he is on the title so they are concerned that a judgement on these cards (almost $12k) would take first priority over the mortgage. They asked him to try to get a letter from the board of directors stating that the cards were in fact the responsibility of the camp. Now if I could have gotten that previously, they wouldn't be on his reports at all and this wouldn't be an issue. He told us that it could be a former board member since it is the current board members that have the problem. We called the chairman of the board that left when we left and turns out, he is back on the board and didn't know these cards haven't been paid. He is writing us the letter, having the cards paid, and we will be getting these off my husband's credit report. I can not believe it. Might turn out ok after all.


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The Lions got nearly 5,000 yards of passing from Matthew Stafford and a record-breaking season by wide receiver Calvin Johnson, but the team struggled to find balance on offense. The Lions were the 23rd-ranked rushing attack in the NFL and lacked any home-run threat out of the backfield.
Bush, 27, has the potential to be that guy. The Lions drafted Jahvid Best with the hope that he could fill that role, but concussion issues have derailed his career. Mikel Leshoure and Joique Bell are expected to return, but neither possess Bush's versatile skill set.
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Jennifer Lopez is pleased Ben Affleck has found huge success with Argo, insisting her ex-boyfriend is finally "getting what he deserves" after his career was mocked by critics for years.
The singer/actress was spotted giving Affleck, who she dated from 2002 to 2004, a standing ovation at the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday (13Jan13) when he landed the Best Director trophy for his latest movie.
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Heightened tensions do not bode well for success of Yemen ceasefire
Oxfam and 9 other NGOs implore all parties in the conflict to abide by the terms of the ceasefire and to resume peace negotiations.
Climate change funding roadmap welcome, but leaves plenty of room for improvement
The roadmap, while long overdue, is a step forward in the world's efforts to adapt to and combat climate change. Unfortunately, the roadmap's projection to double the financial support to help countries adapt to climate change is nowhere near enough to ensure the needs of the most vulnerable are met, said Isabel Kreisler.
El Salvador's right to decide on mining projects upheld
Oxfam hailed today's ruling against mining company OceanaGold, which effectively ended the company's lawsuit against El Salvador for not granting it a mining permit.
Global billionaire club swells by 50 in 2015 – while 767 million live in extreme poverty
Today's report from UBS and PwC revealed that the global billionaires club gained 50 more members in 2015 - at a time when 767 million people are living in extreme poverty. This huge gap between rich and poor is bad news for economic growth, the fight against poverty, social stability and democracy.
Airstrike on Yemen funeral a gruesome act of killing
Oxfam condemns Saudi-led coalition airstrike on a funeral in Sanaa which according to the UN killed 140 people and injured more than 500.
Focus on growth through trade must not overshadow need to tackle inequality, warns Oxfam
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Oxfam congratulates António Guterres on UN Secretary-General appointment
Oxfam congratulates António Guterres on his appointment to what is arguably one of most challenging jobs on the planet. Mr. Guterres brings a wealth of experience and leadership to the role to guide the UN in the years to come.
Paris Agreement to face credibility test after being ratified by 72 countries
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Wolvendeer wrote:I don't find the thought scary at all. Provided I'm not buried in a vault like most people are, I am completely fine with winking out and letting my parts go back to mother nature and scatter to the universe. I actually find the thought as comforting as most religious people find the thought of an afterlife. Now, it would be somewhat annoying to be buried in such a way that my body is of no use to anything, but that won't be my concern once the time comes. In my opinion, whatever you believe, you should be comfortable with your end.
I agree with this. Though it does present a paradox.... I mean, I'd like my body to disintegrate and cease to exist just as my mind has - and that means cremation and scattering in the wind. Rotting in the ground takes too long and is a waste of space, I feel. And besides, I don't want to be dug up by archaeologists in 1,000 years' time. But if I'm dead, I'm dead, so I won't really care. It's just the thought of it, while I'm alive, that makes it matter. And there's the contradiction. I really should have no say in it.
My next question is, if you believe you'll continue to exist as a spirit in the afterlife, why does it matter what happens to your physical body? Does it?


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Tayshaun Prince received a standing ovation as he entered his first game as a member of the Memphis Grizzlies.
The crowd was standing for him again down the stretch as he helped the Grizzlies pull away from the Washington Wizards on Friday night. Prince hit his first three shots, then connected on a pair of fourth-quarter jumpers to finish with 14 points as the Grizzlies defeated the Wizards 85-76.
"Getting the 'W' was the main thing," Prince said. "Once we got in a good rhythm, we were able to pull through late in the game."
Mike Conley scored 18 points to lead Memphis, which was playing its first home game since Prince, Ed Davis and Austin Daye were acquired in a three-team trade this week that sent Memphis leading scorer Rudy Gay to Toronto.
Conley said his role has changed as well as that of other teammates, who now must combine to pick up the 17.2 points a game that left for Toronto with Gay.
"I feel like that's what I'm here for now. That's my role," Conley said. "I'm a role player. I'll do whatever I have to do to win the game. Now, my role is to be more offensive-minded and try to make plays, be aggressive at all times and get up as many shots as I can."
Marc Gasol added 13 points and 15 rebounds for the Grizzlies, while Tony Allen and Jerryd Bayless finished with 11 points each. Allen also grabbed eight rebounds, and Conley also had six assists and four steals. Prince finished 7 of 11 from the field.
Nene was the only Wizards player to reach double figures with 14 points, while handing out six assists. Emeka Okafor had eight points and 10 rebounds as Washington lost its third straight after winning seven of 10.
"They are a physical team," Washington coach Randy Wittman said of the Grizzlies. "They make you move the ball, and, if you don't move the ball, you end up taking bad shots."
Washington rookie guard Bradley Beal missed his second straight game with a right wrist injury.
And the Wizards got another scare when guard John Wall, who missed the first 33 games of the season with a stress injury to his left patella, went to the locker room late in the second quarter with a strained left shoulder. He returned to start the second half, and finished with nine points and six assists.
"I was scared," Wall said of the injury. "I can't catch a break, is all I was thinking. I went back out there and played. I could still feel the pain, but I just tried to play through it."
Memphis put the game away in the final 4 minutes, part of outscoring the Wizards 46-36 in the second half. The Grizzlies overtook the Wizards in the middle stages of the third quarter as Washington had trouble controlling the basketball. The Wizards had a handful of turnovers through the first eight minutes of the period.
The Grizzlies built the lead to five points helped by the Wizards' miscues, which would reach seven in the third. That led to Memphis carrying a 61-56 lead into the fourth quarter although the game was hardly an offensive display of efficiency.
Both were shooting between 41 and 42 percent and things seemed out of sync for both. Memphis ended the night hitting 45 percent, while the Wizards were at 41 percent. Prince said for Memphis the flow was off because of the new surroundings and being unfamiliar with the Grizzlies' playbook.
"Marc Gasol was pretty much directing me every time Mike (Conley) called a play," Prince said. "There were times in the first half and the third quarter where we ran plays and I was kind of going here and going there not knowing what the situation was."
Memphis couldn't extend the advantage enough to get comfortable in the early part of the fourth, and Trevor Ariza's 3-pointer with 8:22 left pulled Washington within 67-66.
Memphis eventually took the lead to 10 points, its biggest lead of the game, when Prince connected on consecutive jumpers for a 72-62 lead with 1:11 remaining.
"I was worried," Memphis coach Lionel Hollins said. "You never know. We had new players on the bench, so we had more people to work with. But you never know how it is going to work out when you have new guys for the first game."
While Prince hit his first three shots, both teams struggled from the field in the second quarter, including Washington missing 16 of its first 18 shots in the frame. Memphis was 6 of 20 in the second, while the Wizards were 5 of 23. Memphis outscored Washington 16-10 in the second quarter.
Neither team had a player in double figures at halftime, and Memphis matched its poor shooting with 10 turnovers to seven miscues for the Wizards. For Memphis, it was an example of the first game adjustments.
"I think that's why we struggled early in the first half," Prince said. "We went through a couple of plays pregame, but obviously we know the difference between pregame and once you get out on that court, especially in a short period of time.
"It was tough, but they tried to keep it as simple as possible for the first game."
Notes: Daye and Davis are wearing their numbers — 5 and 32, respectively — from their previous teams, but Prince changed from the 22 he wore in Detroit to 21. ... The Wizards are 3-20 on the road. ... The Wizards have lost seven of the last eight to the Grizzlies, and haven't won in Memphis since Nov. 3, 2004, the first game in the FedExForum, the Grizzlies current homecourt. ... Memphis F Zach Randolph, now the team's leading scorer with Gay gone, scored seven points, his third straight game in single digits. ... Prince came off the bench, the first time he hasn't started a game since Feb. 17, 2004. Prince had started 672 consecutive games for Detroit before the trade.


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I just like to play while watching tv and often go over a half hour because I'm more into the show. Also I like filling in all the X's. I guess it's my touch of OCD that doesn't let me put in just Dots and leave the rest blank unless I'm tired or made a mistake and have to go back and start over. Filling in the puzzle vertically doesn't finish the game, only completing the dots horizontally. Sometimes that's annoying. I don't always have to fill in the 'extra' common boxes.
Times under 100 seconds
I just posted a monthly score of under 100 seconds for the first time. I did not do all the puzzles this month, however. I did any 4x4 which came up, and also any 5x5 with an 'average solve time' of under 4 minutes 25 seconds. My normal time for a puzzle in that category is around 75 seconds, and the inevitable mistakes and brain cramps create a certain variability. As the end of the month approached, it was exhilaratingly stressful, because I knew that a poor score would throw the average up far more than a good score would bring it down.
In this subset of puzzles my insight is: if the clues were in the most efficient order one could write the solution down very quickly. So I go hunting for clues which address certain areas of the puzzle. In the 5x5 puzzles with low average times, focusing on the clues which give information about the top left hand category seems to be the fastest.
There are certain 4x4 puzzles that I have seen the path efficiently - my best time is 32 seconds.
What is the cutoff time for 'realistic' records that are kept? I've just joined and for most of the puzzles I complete it says I have a new record. Is this just because people with good times have their records ignored?
The "realistic" cutoff is one of 99/100/101. I read it a while ago, but I can't quite remember. I've seen a record of 101 while playing, I can't remember anything less.
If I were to write a program to solve these puzzles, I'd expect it to run in a couple seconds, tops. I did write a program to solve sudokus once. Puzzles that I could manually solve in 200-300 seconds took less than a second in processing time. I don't think I implemented the screen-scraping/parsing, I just manually input a couple puzzles and ran the thing to see how it did. Now, on that site, I am sure people were automating because it showed solve times on a bell curve, and there were always some under 5 seconds.
The "realistic" limits here are too high, but I'm betting the fast solvers see "new record" more often than we really achieve it, not that it gets saved as such. I solve the 4x4s in under 100 seconds about half the time now, with my best times being in the 60s. I'm usually closer to 200 seconds for the 5x5s, but I've done a few of them in under 100 seconds as well. Of course, whatever the limit that is set, it is easy for a computer program to put a "delay until time is just over this boundary" statement in, if the goal is to set records.
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When I was a kid I loved my BMX bike. My friends and I used to make jumps and go on the dirt trails in the woods near where I grew up. Since I got a little older, I don't quite have the energy and ability to rebound like I did when I was a kid. What I do now is play games about BMX bikes. This weeks games are all about BMX bike and racing or freestyle BMX.
Bike Race Free
Bike Race Free is a a game where the BMX rider is put through many realistic and imaginary courses. Some of the different courses ask the rider to be upside down for in air for a lot longer than realistically possible. The goal of the game is that of many BMX games where the rider is on a course and needs to rider jump over obstacles making it to the end of the course as fast as possible. The graphics of the obstacles could be a little bit better but for a free game it's not bad and a lot of fun.
Pumped: BMX Free
Pumped: BMX Free is a popular game. There are a lot of locations to ride and thousands of different trick combos to try. The physics of the game are pretty good. The controls for the game are on screen as well as using the motion detector in the phone. This means there is always something going on and to control the rider. To get the hang of it, they ask for new players to go through the tutorial to learn the basics. Once the tutorial is done, the backyard opens up where it is more of a free ride while accumulating points.
Stickman BMX
Personally, I am a fan of the stick figure genre. Stickman BMX is a game with a really cool Official Trailer too. The different levels and hundreds of trick combinations on make for a very replayable game. What makes the game cool is the controls are easy to use and the graphics are great.
MegaRamp Skate & BMX FREE
Part of the BMX lifestyle is building ramps. MegaRamp Skate & BMX FREE has some of the sickest ramps in existence. The game has 10 real ramps from real locations in Woodward West, Woodward Camp, Times Square, LA, Santa Rosa
Plus: Zurich, Mexico City, São Paulo, Santiago. These ramps are scary big! Remember though, the bigger the ramp, the bigger the tricks.
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BMX Boy
Glide through the levels in BMX Boy using the simple controls to accelerate and jump. While the rider is traveling along the side scrolling half, different obstacles get in his way. Hurdling these obstacles while doing tricks earns points. To finish the level simply reached the end. Along the way there are trophies to accumulate as well. This is one of the simpler games in the list but still a lot of fun to play.


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Tolls tell the tale of two bridges
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration's approval Friday of a new bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ont., might at first glance seem to be a sign that the Motor City has its border-crossing act together – and that Buffalo, beset by decades of controversy over expanding the Peace Bridge, does not.
But in fact, just the opposite may be true.
Experts familiar with both border crossings said they do not expect the new Detroit span to challenge the Peace Bridge or Western New York's other border bridges in any way.
Moreover, some said plans for the new Detroit-Windsor bridge are really just a sign of unhappiness with the privately owned Ambassador Bridge, which now connects the two cities, charging passenger tolls that are more than three times higher than those at the Peace Bridge.
There's no doubt, though, that the new six-lane, $2 billion bridge would be a huge development for Detroit. Michigan officials said the span would create 12,000 direct jobs and as many as 31,000 indirect spin-off jobs.
"This is huge," Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder told reporters. "It's more than a bridge to me. It's about jobs and our future in this state."
And for Buffalo officials who watched in pain as plans for a "signature" Peace Bridge died amid cost and design concerns, the Michigan announcement was a source of some frustration.
"This should be us," said Rep. Brian Higgins, D-Buffalo. "And it will be us when we're ready."
At the same time, though, neither Higgins nor any of several other sources interviewed for this report said they see the new Detroit bridge as an attraction that will lure truck traffic and other business toward the Detroit area and away from Western New York and southeastern Ontario.
"I don't see it as competition at all," Higgins said.
Canadian traffic heading for the Midwest or West now typically goes across the Ambassador Bridge, while Canadian traffic bound for the Eastern U.S. comes across the Buffalo-area international bridges, experts said.
Similarly, Canada-bound traffic from the Western U.S. now often crosses the border at Detroit, while Canada-bound traffic from the Eastern states usually passes through Buffalo or Lewiston.
But is there any evidence that, if one border crossing is more modern and less congested than another 250 miles away, then truckers would opt for the less-congested route even if it is out of the way?
"Every study we ever saw, and there are only a few, says no," said James B. Kane, who for years led a recently mothballed effort to build a for-profit bridge between Buffalo and Fort Erie, Ont.
And the reason for that is just common sense: "Why go so far out of your way just because traffic might be tied up at the Peace Bridge?" Kane asked.
But a modern bridge in Detroit conceivably could prove to be competition for Buffalo in one way, said Ron Rienas, general manager of the Peace Bridge. If, over time, one border crossing appears to be easier and cheaper to use, export-driven businesses may tend to congregate near that cheaper, easier-to-cross bridge, he said.
For now, though, Western New York's border spans have huge advantages over the Ambassador Bridge, several experts said.
For example, the round-trip passenger toll on the Peace Bridge is $2.70.
At the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit, it's $9.50.
That being the case, Kane speculated that Canada may be pressing to build a new Detroit-Windsor span to try to get the owner of the Ambassador Bridge, Manuel "Matty" Moroun, to lower his tolls – or even to drive him out of business.
Yet high tolls are not the only detriment to motorists using the Ambassador Bridge.
Government-sanctioned companies that inspect cargo at the Peace Bridge do so on-site, said David W. Odden, president of BCB International, a Buffalo-based customs brokerage.
As a result, Odden's company paid only $5,000 in inspection fees last year.
In Detroit, those cargo inspectors often order inspections to take place off-site – and tend to be lavishly diligent at their jobs. As a result, Odden said, his company paid an astronomical $300,000 in fees in Detroit on about the same amount of cargo that it had processed in Buffalo for $5,000.
Similarly, Odden said his company pays three times more in rent for its facility at the Ambassador Bridge than it does for its site at the Peace Bridge.
"Buffalo is much more efficient than Michigan" at its border crossing, Odden said.
And things will likely get even better locally, he said, once an experimental plan to pre-inspect U.S.-bound cargo in Fort Erie takes effect.
Meanwhile at the Detroit-Windsor border, Canada has agreed to pay for and operate the new border crossing.
"Canada and the United States are each other's most important trading partners," said Lisa Raitt, Canada's minister of labor. "The Presidential Permit represents an important step towards a new bridge, which will be needed for growing trade and traffic at the busiest Canada-U.S. commercial border crossing with over 8,000 trucks crossing each day."
Thanks in large part to frequent travel between Detroit-area auto plants and their counterparts in Windsor, some 1.54 million truck crossings were reported at Detroit last year, compared with 940,221 at the border bridges of Western New York. Only 4.23 million passenger vehicles crossed the border at Detroit, compared with 6.1 million at the Buffalo and Niagara Falls bridges.
Higgins said that Detroit's plans should revive interest in an eventual expansion of the Peace Bridge. But at the same time, he acknowledged that any grand, comprehensive plan for a "signature" bridge is likely to remain dead while piece-by-piece improvements to the Peace Bridge plaza move forward.
As for Detroit's grand plans, they could get stymied by legal action.
Moroun, the owner of the Ambassador Bridge, already has filed suit to try to stop the competing project, and a Michigan state legislator is suing as well, arguing that the state's governor didn't have the authority to strike a deal for a new bridge with Canada.
In other words, Detroit's expansive plans may soon be mired in the same sort of interminable delays that eventually killed the Peace Bridge expansion.
"There will be years of litigation," Kane predicted.
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lowville; pronounced l-owww(as in oww that really hurt)-ville ...1)where the snow blows so hard their one traffic light breaks. 2)a town in the foothills of the Adirondacks 3)a village that ppl, especially children, vows to get out of when they graduate.
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Lowville; Population of 5,000. It's a place where workboots are in style, every guy chews, and nobody gives a shit. Welfare people take all the money from the workers, and there sure are a lot of welfare people. There are more cows than people apparently, That says something. And once you graduate, if you have a brain. You'll get out of there. There used to be nice looking historic buildings until some drunk people burnt it down. That was about the only good thing about Lowville.
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The Select Board is composed of five members who are elected for overlapping three year terms. As specified in the Reading Home Rule Charter they are the Chief Elected Officers of the Town. The Select Board appoint a Town Manager who is responsible for the daily management of the Town, whose powers are specified in the Reading Home Rule Charter. The Select Board also appoints the Town Accountant and Town Counsel.
The Board holds its regular meetings on Tuesdays as indicated on the website calendar. Meetings are held at 7:00 pm in the Selectmen's Meeting Room at Town Hall. Agendas are posted on the Town's website on the Thursday before the meeting and the packets are posted on the website the Monday afternoon before the meeting. Mail may be sent to the Board members at the above street address, fax or email.
The Select Board call Town Elections and prepare the Warrants for Town Meetings and make recommendations on the Warrant Articles. They initiate legislative policy by inserting Articles in the Town Meeting Warrants and then implement the votes subsequently adopted. They adopt Town policies that can be found in the Select Board's Policies; review fiscal guidelines for the annual operating budget and capital improvements program and make recommendations to Town Meeting on the same. The Board of Selectmen serves as the Road Commissioners for the Town of Reading and oversees traffic issues and approves the Town's Traffic Rules and Regulations. In addition, the Board appoints members to most of the Town's Boards, Committees and Commissions.
The Select Board also serve as the licensing board responsible for issuing and renewing licenses for alcohol establishments, restaurants, car dealers, peddlers and entertainment and amusement devices.
Questions regarding activities of the Select Board may be directed to the office of the Town Manager at (781) 942-9043.
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Donation honors former sheriff
The family of a longtime Auglaize County sheriff honored him by giving to a program to help area children.
"Every year, at our Christmas party, in lieu of buying gifts for each other, my family donates to a needy cause," said Janice Longsworth, the wife of former Auglaize County Sheriff Larry Longsworth, who died in June after a battle with esophageal cancer.
The family hosting the party for the year decides where the money is to go and this year, the Haehns suggested Shop with a Cop, in memory of Larry Longsworth, who served as county sheriff for 16 years.
For Janice Longsworth, who this week was honored with membership in the county's Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), which puts on the event each year, she said being able to give to such a worthy cause is an honor.
"It's a great program," Janice Longsworth said. "It helps children who don't have as much as we do."
Leah Feldner, Longsworth's niece who also serves as a dispatcher at the Auglaize County Sheriff's Office, said it is a good way to give back.
St, Marys Police Department Sgt. Mark Ernst, who is serving as president of the Auglaize County FOP this year, said the $1,000 the Haehn family gave will go a long way in helping children in need next Christmas.
Through the program, officers shop with children at an area store, spending at least $150 per child, with 80 percent of that used for clothing needs. In 2012, the program served more than 100 Auglaize County children.
Children in need are referred through Auglaize County Job and Family Services and the Auglaize County Crisis Center, with applications also available.
"It's based on need," said Ernst, sharing that they rarely turn anyone away.
Officers who participate in the annual program often say they get as much enjoyment out of it as the children.
Auglaize County Sheriff's Office Detective Sgt. Jerry Sawmiller, who coordinates Shop with a Cop, said it provides a nice Christmas to families and children in need, who may not otherwise have one. It is a way local law enforcement can give back to the community.
Shop with a Cop is in its 18th year of helping children in the county with the majority of funding coming from donations, such as this one from the Haehns.
"The community is very generous," Ernst said.
He said this donation in particular means even more coming from the former sheriff's family.